Upcoming Release Frankfurt S-bahn: Coming Soon!

To be honest and with all due respect and kudos to the guys & gals that created and worked on the route, it looks great on the PS5 (and I am sure series X & S), but thats it. Theres nothing special about the route due to the timetable compared to the likes of Dresden - Riesa, Frankfurt Fulda, MSB or RSN, or any other German route The 430 looks great and its a nice addition for driving the ICE services but from my point of view, but its nothing special.

For those on Low end PC''s I would recommend the reduced timetable
For those on PS5 and Xbox series X/S I would definitly recommend that you DONT use Dynamic Weather.

But its your game you paid for it .....

Hentis

 

Appreciate your candour Anthony. It was always my fear apart from the different scenery in terms of gameplay this would bring little to the German urban driving experience we don’t already have on several other routes, notably RRO. Despite being keen, part of me is thinking now wait for at least 20% off in a sale. More of a £25 route than a £30 one.

 

I see that the reduced edition has changed to the standard timetable for consoles...... one word and the problem is actually solved

 

I think you misunderstand. The standard timetable IS the reduced timetable.

 

Get exactly what you mean. Guess there will be a last minute patch on PC claiming the "big" timetable is the Special or Enhanced one.

 

It's just for marketing purposes.
Why you would want to sell a product with a in-game feature labeled " reduced " ?
It's just the wording changed.. the timetable is still the reduced one.

 

But of course I understand that, that's why I mentioned it..... and that solves the problem with console players, now they can't say they have something "less"....

 

Standard? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry or get angry. I know it will mean it’s the standard timetable for release but it’s the wrong word for it. Standard implies normality. It isn’t though. It is the normal timetable, one you would reasonably expect to appear in a TSW route with the available stock and reflecting the route’s reality, with things purposefully removed from it for performance reasons. It should have definitely still been called a reduced timetable because that is what it is and what it reflects compared to the reality of the route, a reduced amount of traffic and services. I really hate it when there’s obvious and misleading marketing used. Just call it what it really is. It turns out I did know whether to laugh or cry or get angry, it was the angry.

 

Typical.

 

To me it will always be a reduced timetable. I think you can almost call it a modern day Rapid Transit.
I dont understand why we cant even have 10 freight (apparently thats all that goes along the route) services in the timetable added? Surely its not that much of a timetable issue. I mean I was down to what 18fps approaching Frankfurt in the ICE but I am sure that the freight doesnt go all the way to Frankfurt does it? Else where along the route the FPS is decent.

Hentis

 

That would take time and effort, and time is money. Expect no updates to the timetable now.

 

I would tell you differently. There will be no full console schedule, no sales. No sales, no money.

 

I basically said that...

 

The only question is how many of us will have this opinion...... I think a lot of people will buy it anyway, they don't even have to be members of this forum......

 

Anyone who bought the HMA DLC on console will definitely not buy this DLC with the standard timetable. And anyone who does should enjoy the empty DLC without rail traffic.

 

I still think that even in this reduced version of the operation, the textures will be blurred, if only because there are Dostos there and they are always the first to have a problem and also according to various experiments they are one of the sources of the load, but I would like to be wrong... I am curious about the feedback in the feedback thread

 

The uncoupling doesn't work for me. I can connect the vehicles, but I can't separate them. I can insert and turn the uncoupling key, but nothing happens.

 

So far I havent seen one bit of blurry textures, TSW 5 both pre release and updated release version on PS5 installed on 2TB SSD. Even when I was streaming yesterday afternoon. Although having said that it did crash on me last week. This was when I accidentally forgot to take of dynamic weather and running an ICE service into Frankfurt it had started raining just before the turn off for Frankfurt Airport station. By the time I was on the outskirts of Frankfurst HBF it was the biblical type of heavy rain and Lightning and Thunder. Unfortunately my PS5's framerate hit about 5 on the entry into Frankfurt and went See ya later!! L:iterally I heard the playstation say See ya later!!

Lesson learnt. Although I did a run in my livestream yesterday afternoon in the ICE and not raining Custom weather and a wee bit of cloud and on entering the main station I was hitting 18fps (dont forget I was also streaming). And I still didnt see any blurry textures. Also looking at my mates stream from a few minuites ago I didnt see any sign of blurry textures (he was on a PS5 Slim).

Hentis

 

Do I understand correctly that you had the S Bahn Frankfurt map in advance for testing? Try to focus on the white stripes on the Dostos car, it's usually always the first one there ......

 

The Route itself is very nice but it really lacks of variety of traffic on consoles. This is an Example what Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof looks in Reality. I hope DTG can optimise memory usage on consoles so that we can get the same timetable as PC.

 

Yep as an ambassador I get it early to create content, ready for the lifting of the embargo so you guys can see it usually the day before release..
I will keep an eye on the Dostos when I am on TSW next.

Hentis

 

The emergency solution is a custom scenario, I tried it on Frankfurt Fulda, but I encountered limited train routing options, practically one route Frankfurt Fulda with the possibility of boarding for passenger trains and then with the Darmstadt and Kassel portal it was possible to route freight trains a little, but really very limited...it was no longer possible to terminate the train in Wasterbach and send it back to Frankfurt etc.......or I have not discovered all the scenario planning options